Recent developments in stainless steels

KH Lo, CH Shek, JKL Lai - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2009 - Elsevier
This article presents an overview of the developments in stainless steels made since the
1990s. Some of the new applications that involve the use of stainless steel are also …

Fatigue crack growth mechanisms in powder metallurgy Ni-based superalloys—A review

R Jiang, YD Song, PA Reed - International Journal of Fatigue, 2020 - Elsevier
Powder metallurgy (PM) Ni-based superalloys are widely used for aeroengine turbine disc
applications due to their excellent mechanical properties and good corrosion resistance at …

Grain-boundary engineering markedly reduces susceptibility to intergranular hydrogen embrittlement in metallic materials

S Bechtle, M Kumar, BP Somerday, ME Launey… - Acta materialia, 2009 - Elsevier
The feasibility of using “grain-boundary engineering” techniques to reduce the susceptibility
of a metallic material to intergranular embrittlement in the presence of hydrogen is …

Influence of grain boundary character distribution on sensitization and intergranular corrosion of alloy 600

P Lin, KT Aust, G Palumbo, U Erb - Scripta Metallurgica et materialia, 1995 - osti.gov
The objective of this study was to assess, for the first time, the potential impact of``Grain
Boundary Design and Control``on the bulk sensitization and intergranular corrosion …

Study of grain boundary character along intergranular stress corrosion crack paths in austenitic alloys

VY Gertsman, SM Bruemmer - Acta Materialia, 2001 - Elsevier
Samples of austenitic stainless alloys were examined by means of scanning and
transmission electron microscopy. Misorientations were measured by electron backscattered …

Analysis of grain boundary networks and their evolution during grain boundary engineering

CA Schuh, M Kumar, WE King - Acta Materialia, 2003 - Elsevier
The goal of grain boundary engineering is to increase the fraction of so-called special grain
boundaries, while decreasing the contiguity of the remaining random boundaries which are …

A new understanding of intergranular stress corrosion cracking resistance of pipeline steel through grain boundary character and crystallographic texture studies

MA Arafin, JA Szpunar - Corrosion Science, 2009 - Elsevier
The roles of grain boundary character and crystallographic texture on the intergranular
stress corrosion cracking (IGSCC) of API X-65 pipeline steel has been studied using …

Modifications to the microstructural topology in fcc materials through thermomechanical processing

M Kumar, WE King, AJ Schwartz - Acta Materialia, 2000 - Elsevier
Recently, there has been increased attention toward determination of the grain boundary
character distribution (GBCD) and manipulation of the relative fractions of “special” and …

Viewpoint on the formation and evolution of annealing twins during thermomechanical processing of FCC metals and alloys

N Bozzolo, M Bernacki - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2020 - Springer
The question of the formation mechanism of annealing twins in face-centered cubic metals
and alloys, which is still not resolved in spite of the fact that the existence of these defects is …

Relative grain boundary area and energy distributions in nickel

J Li, SJ Dillon, GS Rohrer - Acta Materialia, 2009 - Elsevier
The three-dimensional interfacial network of grain boundaries in polycrystalline nickel has
been characterized using a combination of electron backscatter diffraction mapping and …